Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1876 — Romantic Story of a Kansas Couple. [ARTICLE]

Romantic Story of a Kansas Couple.

Thebe ari Using within the corporate limits of this city a gentleman and hie wife from whose life fcbtory glean the following remarkable chapter. the truthfulness of which we - vouch for, having known some of the facts prior to their citizenship here —facts that are known only to the husband, the wife, her family, and a few of her old Missouri acquaintances. The names of the parties are not given for obvious reasons. r , . The gentleman has been a resident of Kansas for many years, and when the country called for defenders was the first to respond to that call. He enlisted as a private in a Kansas regiment that won distinction upon many a battle-field, and was ever at his post—being off of duty not a single day tor many months. He participated in several sanguinary bottles, but fortune favored him, and when mastered oat of service he had not a single scar to show. In after years he diiftea to Platte County, where he remained for some months, during which time he became acquainted with, woed and won his present wife. , She was a young girl about seventeen years of age when the tocsin of was waa sounded, and having been born and raised in the South, very naturally was a sympathizer with the “lost cause.” She had had a brother killed in some of the first battles around Springfield, Mo., and the vowed that she would be that brother's avenger. Unbeknown to any one, she cat her long hair, donned a suit of a younger brother’s clothes, encased her feet in rough bragana, and one night left her home to become a soldier. The somewhat noted Cy. Gordon was then operating in Platte, Clay and Buchanan Counties, with, as dare-devil a band as ever drew saber. She sought out his camp, and followed his black flag in many a hot engagement. She waa never suspected. Who would suspect a worn A in that outcast band? She rode like a trooper, there were few better pistol shots in toe com pany, owing to early training given her by her brothers, and outdoor exercise had browned and tanned her otherwise fair complexion. To be brief, she served for three yean toe cause of the Southern Confederacy—* portion of the time with an Arkansas regiment, which was opposed at one time in battle by the Kansas regiment to which her husband belonged. She came home when the war ended, and and she resumed here place in the family circle, which her absence, had broken. She met this man she now calls husband, as we have previously stated, in Platte County, Missouri, loved him, and finally married him, and they are now residents of this city. They often talk over toe days when they went a “ soldiering,” and while she yet believes the cause for which she periled her life was Just, she cheerfully accepts the “ situation.”—Atchison (Kan.) Patriot, .